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resources as support. Iron and fibreglass allows him to
produce pieces in ascendant and expansive frozen move-
ments. A professional military, he produced works for
outdoors like the Restoration’s Monument.
«The Knuckle,» iron and plastic filler, 126 cm., high., 1987. (consecutively in 1966, 1967 and 1969). Once graduated,
José Ramón Rotellini. (Santo Domingo, 1941). Stud-
ied at the Beaux Arts National School where he won
several student’s awards for drawing and sculpture. He
follows graduate studies in Academia San Fernando, in
Madrid, Spain. In 1969 records his first individual exhi-
bition, takes part on different concourses and receives
awards as sculptor: First Prizes at the Art Competition
León Jimenes 1969 and 1971, as well as, at the National
Biennials in 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1981. Rotellini pro-
duces equally sculptures on welded metal, carved wood,
moulded mud and assembled means. He is the author
of big dimensions public works, conjugating abstraction,
expressionism and the academic figuration.
«Abstraction III,» carved mahogany, 69 cm. high., 1987.
Gaspar Mario Cruz. (San Francisco de Macorís, 1925/
Santo Domingo, 2006). In 1948 he joints the Beaux Arts
National School being a self-educated engraver and be-
comes directly oriented by the Spaniard master Manolo
Pascual. Linked to the 1950’s artistic generation. He ob-
tains First Sculpture Prize at the 1956 National Biennial
and become part of the faculty at the same school he is
been formed. In 1958 again, he wins the National Bien-
nial First Prize, then the Second at the 1960’s similar
competition. In 1964 he obtains a Sculpture Award and
registers his first individual exhibition at the León Jime-
nez First Art Competition. Considered a national mas-
ter, his style reveals modernity loaded with romantic and
popular references, extracted from voluminous trunks.
He is considered a modern «primitive».
«Untitled,» carved mahogany, 80 x 30 cm., no date v «Un-
titled,» carved mahogany, 82 cm., high., no date v «Calitome,»
carved mahogany, 154 cm., high., 1991.
José Nicolás Jiménez. (Palmar, Salcedo section, 1945/
San Juan de la Maguana (19..), He studied at the Beaux
Arts National School during 1963-1969, achieving sev-
eral awards for students, in drawing (1964) and sculpture
he continues sculpture and industrial ceramic studies in
Perugia University, as well as in the State’s Art Institute,
Florence, Italy.
In 1972, his piece «El Mutilado» whose dramatic re-
alism resembles the French master Auguste Rodin, wins
at the National Biennial. Other tridimensional pieces
carved in wood and stone transform him into a cult
author.
«Abstraction,» carved marble, 13 inch high, no date v
«Untitled,» carved marble, 18 inch high, no date.
Domingo Batista:
The Photography’s Art
Born in Santiago de los Caballeros in 1946, he
joints the contemporary photography’s movement by
entering the group «Thursday 68,» becoming a forceful
pursuer of the exact instant; the state of siege’s eagle
eyed, a passionated routes walker, specially the national
ones. In 1991, Manuel A. Grullón, Banco Popular’s
Chairman, refers to his speech and book «Light Time»
with this words: «Banco Popular, in its permanent stand
for the national art development, is happy to embrace, in this
legendary Casa del Cordon, the photography art master in our
country, Domingo Batista, and his exhibition “Light Time”.
It comprises a collection of original black and white photos
related to his same title book’s, published by our lens’ artist,
in which, stands out his exquisite command of the infrared
technic. Batista formally started his artistic work many years
ago by joining the Photography Group Thursday 68. Since
that moment he hasn’t stop his creations, transforming his
work on a refined art with romantic and optimistic profile. In
his numerous individual exhibitions, he has shown steadily,
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